Update: 'Lexicon' decision may be appealed

Published September 16, 2008 at 12:18 PM
by Cheeser
from Yahoo! News (via Detroit Free Press)

Roger Rapoport of Michigan-based RDR Books said he expects attorneys will file an appeal to preserve their right to continue battling a lawsuit from JK Rowling and Warner Bros. preventing them from publishing an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopedia, according to the Detroit Free Press:

In a 60-page opinion, [U.S. district judge Robert] Patterson said the work quotes too directly from the Potter books and dwells too much on a pair of books written by Rowling to explain aspects of the wizarding world she created.

Rapoport and Vander Ark are considering whether they could edit the book to pass the judge's muster.